On August 7, 2020, your Academy submitted a letter to the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Licensure in opposition to their proposed amendment to remove the physician supervision requirements for physician assistants. As the proposed amendments were made in response to statutory changes, your Academy urged that collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants be upheld and that a formal structure to promote standardization of collaborative agreements be established. Learn more about what your Academy is doing to defend physiatrists' scope of practice.